Month: April 2013

By Dawn Muenchrath

When the average Calgarian couple are not at work and not at home, there is a good chance they are at the mall, wandering the carefully engineered streets of a micro-city of consumption. In today’s society, shopping has become an increasingly important pastime. If nothing else, the sheer amount of time that we spend within… Continue reading Magnetism of the mall

By Bhuvana Sankaranarayanan

When Anita Sarkeesian started a fundraiser on Kickstarter, an online platform for creative projects, to look at the way that women are portrayed in video games, the backlash was incredible. The negative reaction from the online community was overwhelmingly populated by comments about raping Sarkeesian.
 Social media was just the tip of the iceberg. A… Continue reading Virtual Violence

By Riley Hill

The Canadian flags at the University of Calgary were at half-mast this week to honour Ralph Klein, the former premier of 
Alberta and mayor of Calgary, who died on March 29 at the age of 70. 
 Klein left behind a polarizing legacy in a province where he was both widely praised and condemned. 
… Continue reading Ralph Klein passes

By Michael Grondin

Richard Aberefa, a third-year computer science student at the University of Calgary, has developed an iPhone application called Cardup to make international calling easier and more affordable. The application is now complete, but is in testing stages with over 20 test users.
 “Cardup gives you the option to call family and friends around the world,”… Continue reading Ringing international with app

By Fabian Mayer

The federal government announced the annual budget on March 21, which contained no changes to taxation and provisioned for minimal amounts of new spending. Canada will run an $18.7 billion deficit in 2013–14. This will be the sixth-consecutive year that the federal government has run a budgetary deficit.
 The main focus of the 442-page document… Continue reading Federal budget concentrates on jobs

By Michael Grondin

The University of Calgary is on its way to becoming a fair trade recognized institution within the next few weeks under Fairtrade Canada, a non-profit organization that provides fair trade designations to different organizations. 
 Fairtrade Canada is the only Canadian member of Fairtrade International, an international non-profit institution that provides fair trade designation to… Continue reading U of C to become a fair trade campus

By Grace Elekwa

The Haskayne School of Business bachelor of commerce program will be making programming changes, focusing on ethical leadership, entrepreneurship and energy. 
 First-year students are currently required to take Business and Environment 291 and Computer Science 203 as prerequisites for higher-level commerce courses. These have been replaced with Strategic and Global Management 217 and Management… Continue reading Haskayne makes changes

By Michael Grondin

On March 28, the University of Calgary announced that it received one of Canada’s largest collections of naval history documents from the Naval Museum of Alberta Society. 
 The collection has over 50,000 photographs and 5,000 books and archives from the 1800s to the 1980s relating to the Royal 
Canadian Navy.
 According to U of… Continue reading U of C receives historical donation

By Michael Grondin

The Student Empowerment Project, created at the University of Calgary by second-year political science student Dave Beninger, looks to fight the recent provincial budget cuts to post-secondary education.
 The Alberta government announced a 6.8 per cent decrease to post-secondary operational funding on March 7. On March 29, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Enterprise sent… Continue reading Student Empowerment Project